{"id":5924,"date":"2013-08-20T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2013-08-20T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:12:09","slug":"new-article-on-polish-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"New Article on Polish Paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scott Simpson, who is quoted in it, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.krakowpost.com\/pdf\/Krakow_Post_issue_104.pdf\">Pre-Christian Slavic Beliefs are on the Rise in Poland<\/a>&#8221; (PDF file), from the <em>Krakow Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe native faith movement as a whole is loosely organised and doesn\u2019t<br \/>\nhave a strong dogmatic component, it is actually less about faith \u2013 as in<br \/>\n\u2018correct belief\u2019 \u2013 and more about being faithful, living the lifestyle,\u201d said<br \/>\nScott Simpson, a scholar of religious studies at the Jagiellonian University,<br \/>\nand a co-author [<em>sic<\/em>] of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acumenpublishing.co.uk\/display.asp?K=e2012112912255675&amp;sf1=CONTRIBUTOR&amp;st1=Simpson&amp;y=6&amp;sort=sort_title&amp;x=27&amp;m=1&amp;dc=1\">recent study of Eastern European neo-paganism.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scroll to page 22 and watch out for extraneous commas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scott Simpson, who is quoted in it, &#8220;Pre-Christian Slavic Beliefs are on the Rise in Poland&#8221; (PDF file), from the Krakow Post. \u201cThe native faith movement as a whole is loosely organised and doesn\u2019t have a strong dogmatic component, it is actually less about faith \u2013 as in \u2018correct belief\u2019 \u2013 and more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,218],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-poland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1xy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11319,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11319","url_meta":{"origin":5924,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Folkloric&#8221; Pagan Statues Spark a Confrontation in Poland","author":"Chas S. 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